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Kim is a regular columnist for metro.us, the #1 most read free daily nationwide with 1.2 million daily readers in New York, Boston and Philadelphia.

Are You Hiding Your Inner Rock Star?

The Masks We Wear Can Help - or Hurt Us - in Life

Although I indulge in watching viral videos, I rarely play them more than once. But I can’t seem to stop watching Adele fooling a bunch of her own impersonators by pretending to be one of them. There is something Shakespearean in the way she dons a prosthetic nose and chin, feigns a bad case of […]

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It’s Not Whether You Win or Lose, But How You Tell Your Story

Redefining What It Means to Have a Happy Ending

When I was young, one of my favorite books was Sugarcane Island, which was the first “choose your own adventure” type of interactive book. The premise was fairly simple: You had been shipwrecked on a deserted island. The goal was survival and finding your way home. At the end of each chapter was a list of […]

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The Personal Growth Workout for Overcoming Inertia

A Step-By-Step Approach to Facing a Problem You've Been Avoiding

Lately, I’ve been contemplating what it takes to overcome inertia. Maybe it’s because the lazy days of summer are over, or my mind being more attuned to the transformational themes of the Jewish new year. Regardless, I’ve noticed that many clients, loved ones, and even yours truly, are doing the ambivalence dance with the one […]

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Flip the Script

Are You Miscast in Your Own Life?

In the movie “Stranger Than Fiction,” Harold Crick is a robotic IRS agent who begins to question his mundane existence when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life and foreshadowing his death. When he discovers that he is not the master of his own destiny, but rather a fictional character, Crick tracks down his […]

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“Inside Out” Teaches Us that Every Emotion has a Purpose

As a therapist, I often feel like a tour guide for my patients. Using various “maps” and my knowledge from years of traversing the emotional terrain, I help them navigate the territory of the mind and make sense of what they discover. Pixar’s “Inside Out” took that journey one step further, introducing the indigenous people […]

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How to Live Like the Stories You Love

We’re all the stars of our own story, but that’s not the only role we play. Every life is an unfolding story: dynamic, unique, purposeful and potentially heroic. But it’s also open to interpretation, especially our own. From the day we’re born, we become the spin doctor of our own work in progress, with the […]

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How to Stop Getting Stuck in the Same Old Plotline

Have you ever noticed that the same type of character keeps showing up in your life and pushing all your buttons? These people may look nothing alike or even share the same gender, but they keep presenting you with more or less the same frustrations and issues. Or perhaps it’s not a certain person but […]

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Your Life as a Character Development Workout

How Antagonists Help Us Strengthen Emotional and Mental Muscles

Does the same type of character keep showing up in your life and pushing your buttons? These people may look nothing alike, but they keep presenting you with more or less the same frustrations and issues. Or perhaps there’s a negative situation you keep finding yourself struggling with: picking up the slack and getting no […]

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What to Say When You’re Not OK

Question: This spring, I will be getting divorced. Because everyone is in such good spirits, I feel like I have to pretend that I’m OK, but I’m devastated. When people ask how I am, I never know how much to share. When you’re in crisis, a simple “How are you?” can feel like the prelude […]

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How to keep your cool when your anger is out of proportion

Common superstition holds that bad (and good) things come in threes. So when, in one evening, two back-to-back clients sought advice about how to respond to unforeseen personal attacks after I also had been verbally accosted earlier that day, I knew I had to address the issue in my column. One client had been the […]

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“Step Out of Your Story” Featured in Shambalah Sun

"The exercises are presented clearly and should appeal to anyone looking to step out of negative rumination, self-criticism, and habitual patterns." Read more...

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"Schneiderman doesn't promise that your world will become instantly rosy and perfect; nor does she say that the journey will be an easy one. Rather, she is an encouraging and supporting presence, providing her readers with a tool chest of possibilities for making change in their lives."

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Step Out Of Your Story

STEP OUT OF YOUR STORY

Writing Exercises to Reframe and Transform Your Life

Every life is an unfolding story, and how individuals tell their story matters. Recent Stanford and Columbia University studies show that how we view the story of our life shapes the life itself. Who are the heroes and villains? Where does the plot twist? How are conflicts resolved? Learn more...

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